- Leading Scottish community retailer, Scotmid has launched a festive campaign to help customers get into the Christmas spirit – saving money and helping the environment.
- They have set up stations in store so shoppers can ‘Save a Christmas Jumper’, either by donating or taking away free snowy sweatshirts and nativity knitwear.
- The initiative will run in more than 50 stores, including those in Edinburgh from today.
- An environmental charity reported that a third of young adults purchase a new Christmas jumper every year, with hundreds of thousands of jumpers later ending up in UK waste streams.[1]
- Lynne Ogg, a Communities Manager at Scotmid said: “We know how expensive Christmas time can be. We hope this initiative brings some festive fun to local communities as well as a new lease of life for those tinselly tops. We look forward to seeing customers get a merry makeover in store!”
- The initiative will be running until mid-December, so shoppers have time to get those holiday knits in for Christmas jumper days. There are posters in the store directing customers to the drop bins.
Scotmid is Scotland’s largest independent co-operative and has been at the heart of Scottish communities since 1859. Our businesses include Scotmid Co-operative, Lakes & Dales Co-operative, Semichem, Funeral Directors, Post Offices and our property division.
The Society employs almost 3,500 people in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England. Scotmid is a co-operative society, owned by its members, who each have an equal say in how we are run. Our core purpose is to serve our local communities and improve people’s everyday lives.
Stores across Edinburgh taking part in ‘The Christmas Jumper Swap’ are:
Scotmid 56-60 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AZ
Scotmid 283-289 Calder Road, Sighthill, Edinburgh, EH11 4RH
Scotmid 6 Bath Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 1EY